Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for Cake Wreck(s) ;) You've made many days at work more fun than they could ever be on their own (and it's especially nice when someone points out that my face and ears are red and I have tears streaming down my face ... from the hilarity that is Cake Wreck[s] not because a co-worker forgot to shower ... last month.

Must. Not. Drink. Coffee. And Read. Cakewrecks. At. Same. Time!!! I nearly spit coffee onto my lovely new computer and an old book... Those turkey things scared me. As did the strange cornucopia's. Excuse me while I go rock in a corner.

i love the last one. A special "thank" to you and John and #1 and all your other wrectastic assistants, Jen. You'll have to share too, but you've proven over and again what generous hearts you have with humor and compassion so i'm sure you'll have no trouble. I really appreciate the positive influence you've had in my life and truly thank you for continuing to blog both here & on epbot.

#1: is that a big poop cloud spewing neon toxic rain full of chunks and leaves?

#2 ooh, that vomiting tornado is nasy. i think the wreckerator got confused about what goes in the cornucopia and the turkey, and put the stuffing in there instead!

I totally see the tiny wizard hats. (i'm guessing they're supposed to be grapes judging by the green and black vines near the top. unless it's a warped eggplant or those are truly wizard hats from a tiny wizard convention trapped in cookie dough and under the power of some wicked black magic.

Give Thank that you didn't eat any of these. And what a brown gnome hat is doing in a garden for Thanksgiving is beyond me.

Dear Jen, John, #1 and all other helpers, Erin (at 10:07) said it beautifully so I "second" her post. Thanks--more than one thank-- for your creativity and the priceless gift of laughter. As many have expressed, that laughter sometimes comes at difficult times in your readers' lives and may just help someone hang in and hang on through another day. Bless you all and best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving!

Terrell, aka NiteNurse (which when I first typed it came out NitNurse; so many possibilities!?!)

I'm just thankful to not have to eat something labeled "strawberry surprise". yikes! D:And I am thankful for all the laughs from Cake Wrecks. And for the wreckoraters....keep on wrecking so I can keep laughing!

I'm at a complete loss about that first one. Are you sure it's supposed to be a cornucopia? I mean, it could also pass for a tree! Or just random cupcakes...

#2 points for it being a recognizable cornucopia. Loss of points for the contents thereof ("vomiting tornado" ). And what on earth is a "gold cake"? Would gold imply wealth which would mean competent decorators?

#3 could this be a stocking, as hung from the mantle Christmas Eve, that matches the wizard's cap? Sounds better than a bunch of hatless mini-wizards running around in a panic...

#4 I never thought it was possible to turn me off ice cream. Apparently, it is.

#5... ok, that actually looks pretty realistic. (I know enough bad cooks). But seriously, parsely and bread cubes does not go with CAKE. And cake is supposed to look yummy and sweet! Then again, if the cake looks as bad as these wrecks, it scares me to think what these wreckerators use for ingredients

Unfortunately, the vomiting tornado was the most realistic of all the cornucopias. This year I will give thanks for my cake decorating skills and a big thank you to myself for paying attention in school when they were teaching us our native language.

I hope your turkey isn't missing limbs or dripping with slime. Have a happy Thank-giving and goble goble! Oh, Lord, please take their pastry bags away from them. Amen.

Are cake decorators even ALLOWED to see a real turkey before launching out blindly into the world of Cake Wrecks? Most of the turkeys I see in/on cakes must be female, because the positioning of the legs makes them look like they're ready for their annual "peep show."

Sorry - Jive Thank on the last one, hard-glazed turkakes and possibly, just possibly, ricey maggots in the yellow (bleh!) greasy cornucopia...I'm just not feeling...gulp...too...swallow..well.May I please leave the table and pass on Thanksgiving supper?

Why can't people just let food be? Let turkeys be turkeys and cake be cake. Why must the cake look like a turkey. I want dessert for goodness sake, not more turkey. I have enough leftovers to last a month as it is!

I think I just have to be the LOTR geek here and point out that no tiny Gandalf died for the wizard hat cake. Gandalf was a grey wizard (and later a white wizard) and wouldn't have had a blue hat. Therefore the poor oppressed tiny wizards who had to die for this cookie-cake-thing were actually lesser wizards, and the wreckerator was obviously taking advantage of the fact that blue wizards are not yet as powerful as other wizards... Those poor blue wizards probably had so much potential. :(

WV - mervin - Merlin's cousin, Mervin was the one of the many wizards to be stripped of his tiny blue hat.

What IS this fixation on Thanksgiving cakes, anyway? Cake is for every other holiday... pie is for Thanksgiving! At least it is at our house, says the cook who baked six pies (for seven people) last night. And I still have to finish the Boston Creme Pie, which, just to confound the situation, is actually made of cake. I had to get the son-in-law whose favorite "pie" is Boston Creme! Bless his heart.

But at least we won't be staring down a cakey turkey or a really ugly cornucopia. And that's worth being thankful!

And, like the rest of your fans, I, too, am thankful for the Cake Wrecks crew - thank you for the smiles, the giggles, the gagging sounds....

Cake #4 comes from a nationwide ice cream franchise where I worked at the Corporate Headquarters. I recall witnessing this cake in it's design phase and protesting it heavily. Not for any reason but pure heinousness. Glad to see it's getting the attention it deserves.

I had to go to the grocery store tonight to get a box of Stove Top Stuffing since my mom came down with the flu and was planning to make homemade stuffing. She won't be joining us for dinner tomorrow. Anyway, that first cornucopia looks exactly like the one I saw tonight. This grocery store does nice work, but I think the bakers were rushed since they had orange globs of icing on white layer cakes which were supposed to be pumpkins, and tons of flotsam. I picked up one of the less offensive ones, a single layer cake with orange piping and one piece of flotsam that said "Give Thanks" with a cornucopia underneath.

The ice scream turkey cakes (and I typed scream by accident but I'm leaving it because that's what I want to do when I see those awful things.)They are so unappetizing.

We saw the second one at our grocery! We always stop by to see the cakewrecks - we can count on finding some in the Dead Clown series, the ones my daughter thinks are newts and I think are sperm with legs, and of course poo cakes. I showed her one just like the second on this post as a newborn-baby-poo cake, since newborn baby poo is that mustard yellow/brown color.

InOviedo: We sent in the Collapsed Turkey Picture (Wreck#4) and laughed the whole time trying to get a picture of it. Funny thing is that it was still for sale - even with the ripped off cone-leg hanging on!. Just hanging out in the cooler waiting for someone to say "That one looks good, let's get it!" It didn't look good before it's tragic accident either....

The Gandalf wizard hats made me laugh so hard! I can't wait to show this post to my mom in the morning, so she can pee her pants laughing so hard, while she's cooking the turkey!

On a similar note, I am so thankful for Cake Wrecks, because it's so inspiring, it's joyful, it lead me to Epbot which makes my geeky heart swell with pride, and it assists me in my mission to make my mom pee her pants laughing every day. :)

I for one will never ever order a ice cream cake shaped like a turkey. Ugh lol how scary they look. As for the horn o plenty things.. one I fear looks like a giant black hole about to eat us all. That or throw up on us can't tell which..

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Some cake makers shy away from freezing cakes due to the fear that their creation might dry out. If the proper method is not utilized, that fear will be justified. The key lies in how you wrap the cake. It's also important to postpone the decorating process until the cake has fully defrosted. Icing tends to "sweat" and become gooey when a cake is left out to defrost.

When you are applying butter icing or frosting, the best cake decorating technique is to put a large dollop in the centre on the top. You then need to spread out the icing with a spatula (I find that a metal spatula gives a smoother effect and is easier to use than a plastic spatula) towards the edge of the cake.

A good option is to buy already baked cakes that only need the surface decorations. Also when selecting the shapes, single layered, rectangular, square and round cakes with marginal assembly are the least nettling choices. Multi-tiered unusual shaped cakes requiring a lot of assembly is a strict No.

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